This morning I was getting ready for my morning walk to dog park and got my stuff together— wallet, keys, iPhone, headphones. The big three. Anyway, I don’t like the white ear buds that come with Apple stuff. I feel like an Apple douche and I don’t think the headphones are loud enough– plus I don’t like how the buds fit in my ears. So I bought these random other kind that I could jam in my ears all deep and stuff.

After a couple months, these crap headphones started fritzing and soon enough one of the ear buds (left side) was out altogether. (They’re made by Griffin. Griffin Headphones.) Anyway, this morning I was reminded again of the fact that they’re broken with the one silent bud and I got annoyed. Not only because they’re broken but because I keep forgetting I have the ongoing project of researching replacement headphones which is on the list of 50 other things I’m not doing.

So today, with both buds in my ears and music playing out of only the one good side– I got out the scissors and decided to snip off the left bud cord. I was sick of it dangling and being broken. I was gonna rock my iPhone all old school one bud 70′s transistor radio style! But as soon as I snipped through the dead left cord– the music in the right bud stopped! Dead silence! I was like, ‘WTF, I only cut off the left cord! Why did the working bud need the other bud cord to function?!’

(Yes, I know I’m not describing this well but if you follow what I’m saying– you know what I’m saying…)

Long story not short enough— there was a pretty good reason the headphones stopped working. Click through for the photo of my now totally non-working headphones to see what I snipped…

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The swimmer has been swimming around for a long time. Well, not really swimming. More like treading water. The water is nice so he won’t complain but often he gets tired of being in the sea. He can see some people on the shoreline happily throwing frisbee. Others fish timelessly on the dock with an unconcerned rod in the water. Sometimes he dreams of a nice comfy raft and umbrella drink. A change of horizon would be nice. But for now he’s in the water. He has to keep swimming.

There’s activity all around. Lots to distract his thoughts. Jet skiers buzz by annoyingly loud. Grinning surfers paddle past airheadedly. Dreamy yachts in the distance drift. Younger swimmers sometimes stop and ask if he’s ok. Not too long ago he saw a bloated dead body with a sea gull standing on it. Everything is finite. He knows. But he keep swimming. His legs are strong. His heart is strong. He kicks his feet and waves his arms like wings.

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Ok there’s a couple things I like alot lately so I figure I’d promote em! Just for the hell of it! Not paid ads! (unfortunately!)
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#1 Pac Man Oven Mitt

I got this oven mitt as sort of a joke a while ago. I figured I’d get it and it’d be the “funny thing” I have in my kitchen (I have to have something funny in every single room or else I get insecure.) But this thing turned out to be a great oven mitt! It’s made out of some sort of super “space age” plastic that blocks the heat totally! Better than my cloth oven mitt! Plus, you can go all wocka wocka wocka weee weee weee weeee wocka wocka wocka wocka wocka wocka weee weee weee weeee wocka wocka wocka while you wait for your Pillsbury cookies to bake up!

If you want one you can get one here!

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#2 Opera Browser

I’ve had issues with browsers for years. IE sucks now and is annoying. Even though it’s the “most popular”— in reality, it’s the Zune of browsers. Plus, I have a 64bit computer and it’s extra special stupid with 64bit. So it got itself fired. F-IE.

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